August Macke

August Robert Ludwig Macke 1887 – 1914 was a German Expressionist painter. He was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art: he saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which were forming in the rest of Europe.
Like a true artist of his time, Macke knew how to integrate into his painting the elements of the avant-garde which most interested him. Like his friends Franz Marc and Otto Soltau, he was one of the young German artists who died in the First World War.

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